Xbox boss Phil Spencer says a PlayStation version of Xbox Game Pass is ‘inevitable’
Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, says it is “an inevitability” that PlayStation will produce its own version of Xbox Game Pass.
Speaking to IGN, and responding to recent rumors surrounding the future of PlayStation Plus, Spencer says Game Pass-style services meet many player interests and provide a freedom of choice that isn’t given elsewhere. He expects Sony will try to emulate the success of Xbox’s approach with a similar service of its own.
«I don't mean it to sound like we've got it all figured out, but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they wanna play, where they wanna play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things,” he says.
»So when I hear others doing things like Game Pass or coming to PC, it makes sense to me because I think that's the right answer.”
He adds that the industry’s move to subscription-based services was always going to happen. Now, the question becomes who can innovate or improve upon that system best in the future.
«When I'm talking to our teams, I talk about it as an inevitability,” Spencer says.
“So for us, we should continue to innovate, continue to compete, because the things that we're doing might be advantages that we have in the market today, but they're just based on us going first, not that we've created something that no one else can go create.”
“Because I think the right answer is to ship great games, ship them on PC, ship them on console, ship them on cloud, make them available day 1 in the subscription. And I expect that's what our competitor will do.»
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